The Chemistry of Photography

Michael Shorrock The chemistry of Photography Summary: Joseph-Nicephore Niepce took he word’s first photographs in 1824. Many people don’t know that he was the person who invented photography; they think that a Frenchman named Daguerre was the inventor but he got the idea from Niepce. Jacqueline Belloni, a chemist at the University of Paris-South at Orsay, is doing research on “holes” in halide ions. The problem with “holes” is that they gobble up light-generated …showed first 75 words of 271 total…

…showed last 75 words of 271 total…There are 10 billion crystals in a frame of ordinary film. ~The first camera invented was a cubical wooden box about a foot on a side and the film was a tin or stone plate coated in asphalt. Response: I think this article was interesting I never realized how complicated it is to develop a photograph. I think it would be incredible to be able to see one of the first photo’s Niepce ever made.